Yes, I did get the answer.  
Thanks

On Jan 21, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> I hope you got your answer.  Any watt meter, will report agrogate power, so 
> that forward and reflected power are combined in the resulting reading.
> The watt meter gives you the SWR where it is, so if you are using an 
> internal tuner for example, the meter being ahead of the tuner, is not 
> seeing what the transmitter output behind the tuner is seeing.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Justin Mann" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:54 PM
> Subject: using a tw-1?
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I've just gotten a tw-1, have it connected, and the thing is talking as it 
>> should.  However, I'm quite startled of the inaccuracy of the readings 
>> that i am getting.  Sometimes, I will see my antenna 250:1 etc.  This 
>> doesn't make any sense at all.  Sometimes, I will see my power output at 
>> 130 watts when my radio actually puts out only 100.  I'm using this with a 
>> Kenwood ts2000.  Can you help?  I'm not expecting this to be as accurate 
>> as a bird watt meter, but I would imagine it should be relatively 
>> accurate.  Also just to clarify, you can just hit the forward, reverse, or 
>> swr button while using an SSB transmission?
>> Thanks much,
>> Justin